Neato XV-21
[ unlike an apple watch, it’s actually useful ]
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Neato XV-21
Time to change your Google passwords … also stop using a) the same password across many websites and b) easy to figure out security questions … by now we all know when you were born …
A List of 5 Million ‘Gmail Passwords’ Leaked, But There’s No Need to Panic
A list of almost 5 million combinations of Gmail email addresses and passwords has been posted online.
http://mashable.com/2014/09/10/5-million-gmail-passwords-leak/
The goal is to disrupt the state at a rate faster than the rate by which it can disrupt the market …
So after three days of their systems being down, I finally reached Blue Shield on Friday and got them to “cancel” my insurance. I even went into the system and removed “autopay”.
Today I find out that they charged me for the next month anyway, even though it says “canceled” in the system [ yes i had confirmed with the guy i wouldn’t get charged ].
So when I go to call them, after I waste some time going through their automated system, I end up at a “busy-signal” dial tone straight from the early 90s.
Hmmm …
[ In hindsight, getting out is harder than it was getting in ]
“The entire problem we face going ahead stems from the very idea of Karl Marx that government is capable of managing the economy either through communism or autocratic-socialism where the state dictates to the economy under the pretense of caring for the people, that has truly become a derivative of fascism where the state comes first.”
So now I’m the problem. Because I’m a talented programmer, I’m part of the 1% extracting value out of companies like a mercenary and I’m not being regulated; and I should be because I’m causing volatility for companies and in the general economy.
I find it insane that communists are able to effectively pretend to be free market capitalists …
The Fall of the Talent Economy?
Roger Martin, former dean of the Rotman School of Management, on why talent’s powerful economic position is unsustainable.
http://blogs.hbr.org/2014/09/the-fall-of-the-talent-economy/
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It’s obvious that this would happen
It’s obvious that this would happen …
Hacker breached HealthCare.gov insurance site
The hacker uploaded malicious software, but consumers’ personal data didn’t appear to be taken.
Neato Robotics XV-21 vacuum cleaner. It uses LIDAR for navigation similar to the Google driverless car.
Everyday at 10 am it does it’s thing. Vacuum, take a break to charge, continue where it left off and go back home.